Yup. You can also tweak the timer for purging idle hosts, it's in globals-define.h. You need to recompile after making changes to this file.
----- Original Message ----- From: Joel Donahue [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 01:15 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ntop] cumulating traffic with hosts on/off I think this is what you need, from the man page: -c --sticky-hosts By default idle hosts are periodically purged from memory. Use this flag to prevent idle hosts from being purged from memory. NOTE: if idle hosts are kept in memory you can experience severe memory usage. On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Xaver Gerster <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to pin down top bandwidth users in my network using ntop - to which > I'm very new. > > The environment is such that hosts get switched 'on' and 'off' several times a > day. > > Now, my problem is, that (for me) the info in AllProtocols->Traffic seems to > refer only to hosts which are currently in the network, i.e. 'on', and > unfortunately restarts from scratch (i.e. zero Data Snd/Rcv) each time a host > previously switched 'off' goes online again. > > Is there any way to cumulate the traffic each host produces over a certain > period of time even though it may disappear from the net every now and then > during this time? > > Thanks for your help. > wbwb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop <font size="1"> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font> _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
